NYC thief Macy’s arrested with loaded gun

A man was arrested for shoplifting in Macy’s in Manhattan on Tuesday, police said, and busted for heat. A New York Police spokesperson said the 21-year-old was kidnapped and held by security inside the Herald Square store around 6:30 p.m. until NYPD arrived and discovered he was carrying a loaded .380 caliber pistol. Police said he has not yet been charged. The suspect lives in Brooklyn and was arrested weeks ago and charged with grand theft from another store on January 14, according to sources. Sources said he was arrested…

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The myth of AOC theft versus real harm to the poor

Once again, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez builds a Dickensian fantasy world where every criminal is a saint, and every police act is unfair. “It is much easier for people who steal infant formula and medicine to be jailed as monsters than to acknowledge that our political and economic priorities create conditions in which people steal infant formula to survive,” she tweeted in response to the NYPD arrest of 12 thieves in The Bronx. This is of course not the truth about single mothers stealing diapers and the surrogate is not the…

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